# Meanings of minor planet names: 543001–544000

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.
Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (DMP) and regularly updated the collection.
Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets, Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned. The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.

## Index100K200K300K400K500K600K

* 538,000s
* 539,000s
* 540,000s
* 541,000s
* 542,000s
* 543,000s
* 544,000s
* 545,000s
* 546,000s
* 547,000s
* 548,000s
* 543,001…
* 543,101…
* 543,201…
* 543,301…
* 543,401…
* 543,501…
* 543,601…
* 543,701…
* 543,801…
* 543,901…

## 543001–543100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 543018 ROTAT | 2013 RF$_{18}$ | Named for the Remote Observatory Theoretical Astrophysics Tübingen at Observatoire de Haute-Provence. The main telescope is a 0.60-m Newtonian and the discovery instrument of this minor planet. The observatory is a member of the Foundation Interactive Astronomy and Astrophysics. | IAU · 543018 |
| 543060 Liefke | 2013 RQ$_{95}$ | Carolin Liefke (born 1981) is an astronomer and astronomy educator at Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg. She has used the telescope that was used to discover this asteroid in educational activities. | IAU · 543060 |
| 543081 Albertducrocq | 2013 SC$_{26}$ | Albert Ducrocq (1921–2001), a French cybernetic scientist, journalist and essayist. | IAU · 543081 |

## 543101–543200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 543198 Rastislavmráz | 2013 TT$_{115}$ | Rastislav Mráz shihan (1897–1968) is a former Slovakian Karate champion. | IAU · 543198 |

## 543201–543300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 543301–543400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 543302 Hamvasbéla | 2013 XP$_7$ | Béla Hamvas (1897–1968) was a Hungarian writer, philosopher, and social critic. | IAU · 543302 |
| 543315 Asmakhammari | 2013 YY$_{14}$ | Asma Khammari-Steinhausser (born 1982) is a French promoter of scientific outreach. | JPL · 543315 |

## 543401–543500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 543501–543600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 543581 Laurenrubyjane | 2014 NL$_{64}$ | Lauren Ruby Jane Forward (born 2006) is the granddaughter of British amateur astronomer Norman Falla, who discovered this minor planet. | IAU · 543581 |

## 543601–543700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 543698 Miromesaroš | 2014 OF$_{309}$ | Miroslav "Miro" Mesaroš (born 1967), a Slovak mathematics and physics teacher and popularizer of astronomy. | IAU · 543698 |

## 543701–543800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 543801–543900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 543901–544000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 543914 Tessedik | 2014 QW$_{291}$ | Sámuel Tessedik (1742–1820) was a Slovak Lutheran pastor, school founder, teacher and economic writer. | IAU · 543914 |